I know too much to be conservative or liberal.
Be gentle and you can be bold; be frugal and you can be liberal; avoid putting yourself before others and you can become a leader among men. Donald H. McGannon -Lao Tzu.
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
A liberal is a man who is right most of the time, but he's right too soon.
A radical thinks two and two makes five. A liberal is more conservative. he knows two and two make four, but he's unhappy about it.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.
I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his own money.
A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
He that's liberal To all alike, may do a good by chance, But never out of judgment.
The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
By the end, everybody had a labelâpig, liberal, radical, revolutionary ... If you had everything but a gun, you were a radical but not a revolutionary.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
For the sake of domestic peace, liberalism aims at democratic government. Democracy is therefore not a revolutionary institution. On the contrary it is the very means of preventing revolution and civil wars. It provides a method for the peaceful adjustment of government to the will of the majority.
A politician will always tip off his true belief by stating the opposite at the beginning of the sentence. For maximum comprehension, do not start listening until the first clause is concluded. Begin instead at the word "but" which begins the second, or active, clause. This is the way to tell a liberal from a conservativeâbefore they tell you. Thus: "I have always believed in a strong national defense, second to none, but ... " (a liberal, about to propose a $20 billion defense cut).
Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.
The first step in freeing yourself from social restrictions is the realization that there is no such thing as a "safe" code of conduct - one that would earn everyone's approval. Your actions can always be condemned by someone - for being too bold or too apathetic, for being too conformist or too nonconformist, for being too liberal or too conservative. So it's necessary to decide whose approval is important to you.
The modern definition of 'racist' is someone who is winning an argument with a liberal.
The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.
We will ourself in person to this war; And, for our coffers, with too great a court And liberal largess, are grown somewhat light, We are enforced to farm our royal realm, The revenue whereof shall furnish us For our affairs in hand.
The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
To behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.